The Summer Reading Program

Life was fun last night. We had a meeting for our new volunteers about the summer reading program. We talked about the plan and how we were going to do it and then Robert said "Hey! Ya' wanna' go visit the neighborhood and see where you will be working?"
We all decided to go and so off we went. When we all got there the neighborhood seemed awfully quiet but as soon as we piled out of our cars kids became to come. They ran up and and grabbed us, hugging us and jumping on us. We introduced our new guests.
Robert introduced the idea of these people coming to read to them every day. Eyes got big and the kids got excited. We were there for about five minutes when a line of cars pulled into the parking lot. The first car saw Robert and stopped. It was one of the Bantu elders. He came up to us and introduced himself and then he asked Robert if we could all come down to their meeting and meet with them. We were all ushered to Chief Musa's home. A translator was assigned to the meeting by the elders. The volunteers were then introduced to the Chief and the other elders. We had a good time. I was amazed that we were invited to the home. We were thinking about it later and we have only seen maybe one other American in this home so this was a big compliment.
As we were preparing to leave one last request was given by the elders. They want to be given a schedule of times that the volunteers will be in the neighborhood because they want to be able to bring their children and make certain they are being read to. Robert asked "So how many kids do you think you want to bring?" The elder said "Fifty" So now we are thinking that there will be a possibility of fifty kids when we read. hmmmm.... we'll have to see how this is going to work. Experiments are such an interesting thing. This will be a fun summer!